Customer Service Specialist II - Lyons Magnus LLC

Lyons Magnus leads the food industry with creativity and innovation, crafting top-quality products across all manufacturing phases, from raw materials to marketing. With over 2,000 diverse items for industrial ingredient and food service sectors, Lyons caters to leading restaurant chains nationally and internationally.

At Lyons, our diverse and talented staff is the heart of our organization. We foster a thriving work environment where employees are engaged in shaping both the company's and their own future.

We seek a highly motivated Customer Service SpecialistII to join our customer operations team. The candidate should have extensive experience, a service mindset, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. This role involves co-leading account management in manufacturing with broadline distribution experience, partnering with Sales Account Executives to support sales objectives, and providing top-tier service to customers. The ideal candidate will contribute to the company's long-term vision for success.

Location: Lyons Magnus East - Walton, Ky

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Core Responsibilities:

• Create superior customer service experiences at all points of the business cycle: product inquiry, pricing requests, order entry, order fulfillment, problem resolution.
• Understand the customers’ needs and communicate those needs effectively across multiple levels of the organization.
• Interact with sales team, providing support to company sales personnel, distributors, and manufacturing representatives.
• Oversee and provide personal attention to high-value accounts.
• Prioritize work independently and complete tasks with minimal supervision while also able to collaborate with other team members.
• Process orders accurately in a fast-paced environment.
• Understands freight methods.
• Interact daily with customers and colleagues via phone and email.
• Ability to navigate ERP and CRM systems.
• Primary point of contact to provide first class customer service to our customers.
• Enter orders, manage, or escalate any concerns, and ensure that appropriate changes were made to resolve issues.
• Problem Solver - Use creativity to design or explore options to deliver excellent customer support in an orderly, efficient, and timely manner.
• Collect prompt and accurate customer feedback to resolve issues in a timely, professional manner.
• Work with price lists and/or other department heads to determine charges for products requested.
• Resolve any billing issues by processing product returns and credits and working with Finance department where necessary.
• Partner with sales, marketing, commercialization, regulatory, supply chain, quality, business analytics and operations teams to ensure meeting and exceeding customers’ service expectations.
• Daily/weekly evaluations of production at multiple manufacturing facilities to support high levels of communication to customers, sales leads and multiple divisions within Lyons.
• Inventory/Production reporting to customers and sales leads.
• Support sales and business development initiatives to support the customer’s needs.
• Issues credits, sends order acknowledgments, and composes emails to customers and potential customers.
• Communicates with all individuals whose involvement impacts customer communications.
• Track shipment status of customer orders.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Customer focus mentality to deliver excellent and consistent service.
• Independent decision-maker but successfully works as part of a team.
• Ability to work successfully with cross-functional team members to build trust and respect amongst peer groups and recognizes the importance of solid relationships to influence others to get things done in a timely fashion.
• Professional written and verbal communication with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally, in writing, via virtual platforms (i.e., Zoom and Microsoft Teams), and in person. Consistently uses communication skills to influence outcomes.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple priorities at once with a positive attitude.
• Experience working with logistics teams.
• Customer service experience in manufacturing background preferred.
• Excellent time management – can balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Proficient in computer applications, including Microsoft Office and CRM platforms, preferably with Microsoft Dynamics AX and Salesforce.
• Confident presenting updates to leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to travel occasionally to various Lyons manufacturing plants and customer meetings.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Operations, or related field.
• 3+ years of Experience in Customer Service
• 2+ years of managerial experience (preferred)
• 3+ years of Experience in Foodservice distribution (preferred)